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IX. Account of Edward the Confessor's Monument. By Mr. Geo. Vertue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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As Rapin has made mention of an old inscription on the shrine of K. Edward the Confessor, in Westminster abby, when first erected; it is to be observed, that that which now is there differeth from it, having, as it is said, been wrote, and put in lieu of the former in the reign of K. Richard II. or later.

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Archaeologia , Volume 1 , Volume 1, Second Edition, 1779 2 , 1779 , pp. 32 - 39
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 32 note * Vetust. Monument. Rer. Britann. Vol. I. Numb. XVI.

page 33 note [n] Camden, in his work intituled, Reges et Reginae Nobiles et alii in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulta. London, 1600. 4to. pag. 3.

page 37 note [o] This table of pictures is fixed over the press, wherein the effigies of the kings, vulgarly called, The ragged regiment, are placed.

The figures seem to be painted very neatly, whether in oil, or before that invention, I cannot say; but the paint is laid on a thick white ground on board; every part of the ornaments, and the frame-work, is richly wrought and gilded; many parts being set with stones of beautiful colours, and glass painted with gold, that, no doubt, when first made, it must have been a most costly piece of work. 'Tis about twelve feet long, and three feet high. I don't think it was made for this place, nor for this use certainly, but probably for the great altar of this church.